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Concerns in Scotland: "We are not even close to making it difficult for Israel"

While goal scorer Ryan Christie claims that the 1-1 draw is "not the end of the world", past players and commentators are apprehensive ahead of the fateful meeting in the playoffs

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Saturday, 05 September 2020, 00:10

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Like the Israeli national team, the Scottish national team also knows that the really important meeting between the two will be in a month, as part of the Euro 2021 qualifiers. After losing points and ability shown.

"I'm overall happy," coach Steve Clark concluded.

"Disappointed that we absorbed in the second half, but I think we more or less dominated defensively. There will be an interesting game in a month."

"It's not the end of the world," insisted Scottish scorer Ryan Christie.

"We want to create a little more opportunities in the future. We controlled the game even if we didn't hold the ball. There are a lot of positive things to take, and I hope there will be more in the future."

Teammate John McGuinn added: "We are disappointed, probably a draw is a fair result. We will have to show that we are a better team in October."

Lyndon Dykes, who made his national uniform debut, concluded: "I was excited to play and was disappointed with the result. We need to get better. When looking at the squad, we have a world-class level. We need a little faith, a little confidence."

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"It will undoubtedly increase Israel's confidence that it will think it can make it to the playoffs," said former BBC commentator Billy Dodds.

Another former player, Willie Miller, added: "Israel dominated the second half and were excellent. We are really not in pace, we are not even close to making it difficult for them. They should have led. It is quite worrying."

Former national team coach Craig Levin analyzed and said: "It was a tough game, we didn't really manage to control it at any stage. Two or three long balls from the Israeli defense found spaces in our defense. I would not be surprised if the method of play changes soon."

Scottish commentator Ewan Marie added: "I do not want to be too critical, the players have not played for a long time, but a better team would have scored a number of goals in front of us."

In the "Scottish Herald" the players of the Israeli team were given scores and unsurprisingly, Zehavi received the highest score in the game, also among the Scottish players - 8. Manor Solomon, Taleb Tuatha and Eli Desa received 7, the other players received 6.

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